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SOWK 607 Advanced Practice with Small Systems

Instructors: Dr. Jill Dickie and Michelle Kreidler, Fall Semester 2019

Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence-Based Resources

Tools and Standards for Assessing Reviews and Other Studies

Other Sources for Locating SRs - PubMed's Clinical Queries

PubMed -- Clinical Queries
This search filter provides citations to the evidence-based literature in the following five areas:

  • Therapy - information addressing the treatment of disease 
  • Etiology - information addressing causation/harm of disease
  • Diagnosis - information addressing disease diagnosis
  • Prognosis - information addressing disease prognosis
  • Clinical prediction guidelines - data addressing the likelihood of disease presence or absence

PubMed -- Systematic Reviews
This search filter provides citations to the highest levels of evidence including: 

  • Systematic reviews
  • Meta-analyses
  • Reviews of clinical trials.

PubMed -- Focused Topic Searches
This is a directory of pre-built concentrated searches on a variety of different topics.